There seems to be a disconnect between science and what is popular. Nicholas Kristof writes in the New York Times, Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates. It is ironic when a great number of issues and challenges the world currently faces require a science perspective, scientists are deemed irrelevant. The perceived chasm between what is discussed inside the classroom and what happens in the real world perhaps originates from the fact that it is usually not straightforward to abstract. This definitely brings back memories on how a lot of people during my childhood thought that all I knew was from books, implying that I virtually had no practical value. philbasiceducation.blogspot/2014/02/learning-science-in-everyday-life.html
Posted on: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:42:23 +0000
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